Expect a major revelation about Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Jr., in THE NEW YOR...

[lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu]

Honor Moore, the oldest of Paul Moore, Jr.'s nine children, reveals some 
major surprises about her father in a new book, THE BISHOP'S DAUGHTER, 
which will be released on May 19th.  The next issue of THE NEW YORKER (due 
out on March 1st) will carry a substantial advance excerpt from the book 
-- an excerpt which discloses the secret.

For those too young to know, Paul Moore, Jr. was the Bishop of New York 
from 1972 to 1989.  He died on May Day, 2003.)

I read the book in an early draft many, many months ago.  Hold onto your 
seats.

A tiny excerpt, without the big secret, appears at 
http://tinyurl.com/235gt4

In ADAM BEDE, George Eliot wrote, "If you would maintain the slightest 
belief in human heroism, you must never make a pilgrimage to see the 
hero."

I disagree. THE BISHOP's DAUGHTER takes us on a pilgrimage at close range 
with one of my heroes, and he survives the scrutiny.

Honor Moore will be accused of being an iconoclast, but she is not.  Flesh 
and blood icons are far more valuable than those made of marble or 
granite.

The book is also deeply moving about the bishop's daughter, its main, if 
not its most sensational, subject.

Louie
Louie Crew, 377 S. Harrison St., 12d, East Orange, NJ 07018.  973-395-1068
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew